Because he had directly consumed a large amount of spiritual medicine, his body was on the verge of bursting, his blood nearly boiling. Now, it was as if a floodgate had opened, and in an instant, blood gushed out like a torrential flood.

As the blood spurted out, William Carter aimed downward, spraying it completely onto the countless medicinal herbs below that had nearly buried him.

“Hiss... hiss... hiss...” The blood splattered onto the many herbs, like hot water poured over ice, and many of the herbs actually began to melt.

As more and more blood was expelled, all the herbs touched by the blood started to dissolve, gradually merging into the red, seemingly boiling blood, causing the blood to increase in volume and slowly spread throughout the entire cauldron.

By directly severing a major artery, the amount of blood flowing out was unimaginable; soon, more than half of his blood had drained away. At this point, William Carter’s complexion looked even worse than when he had died before, and he himself felt as if his body was about to float away.

However, the blood on his wrist had once again stopped flowing—this was already the third time. Because he had taken a large amount of medicine, especially millennia-old spiritual herbs, the wound was slowly healing on its own, so William Carter had no choice but to cut himself again.

With this amount of blood loss, an ordinary person would have died long ago, but William Carter was not dead—though he was teetering on the edge of life and death. The medicinal properties of several millennia-old spiritual herbs were sustaining him, allowing him to survive in a state that was almost like a dried corpse.

Only William Carter could possess such a profound understanding of medicine, using the spiritual medicine he had consumed to mix with his own blood, then using this as fuel to burn the many herbs, ultimately refining them.

At the same time, he was keeping himself alive with the support of the spiritual medicine, while trying to expel as much of his mortal blood as possible, in hopes of using the spiritual energy within his body at the final moment.

Gradually, more and more herbs began to fuse with his blood, and the pile of herbs William Carter was sitting on slowly disappeared, turning into a cauldron full of bright red blood, with William Carter completely immersed in it.

However, there were still many pills floating inside. These pills had already been refined and formed, and without the conflicting properties of raw herbs, William Carter’s blood could not dissolve them—especially the Foundation Establishment Pill, which was sealed with traces of spiritual energy that continuously repelled William Carter’s blood.

“It’s done... it’s done, the first step is complete. Now it depends on whether I can activate my own perfected Foundation Establishment method. Although there are all kinds of limitations right now, as long as I can circulate power, at least circulate spiritual energy and activate the technique, only then can I truly begin cultivation...” With this in mind, William Carter kept trying, using the power of his soul in his spiritual consciousness to communicate with the trace of spiritual energy left in his body from devouring the millennia-old spiritual herbs. That spiritual energy was not something he had slowly refined himself; it was wild and completely uncontrollable.

However, William Carter’s soul had experienced three lifetimes of upheaval, and what he had learned in the Immortal Realm was beyond imagination. After thousands of attempts, he finally managed to guide a trace of spiritual energy into the internal meridian pathways as he wished.

“Whoosh!” In that instant, that not-so-powerful strand of spiritual energy shot through William Carter’s body like a beam of light.

And once there was energy circulating, other traces of spiritual energy that William Carter had absorbed began to be drawn in, while the herbs outside his body that had been dissolved by his blood were continuously drawn into his body during the activation of the technique, forming an internal and external cycle.

If anyone could see William Carter at this moment, they would be terrified by the scene, for William Carter was completely immersed in blood, and that blood was constantly shuttling through his body.

Foundation Establishment—the foundation of cultivation, the basis for transcending the mundane, the foundation for ascending to seek immortality.

This step is the most crucial one, the step that keeps countless ordinary people outside the gate.

With one’s own spiritual energy, forge the foundation for ascending to seek immortality, forge the Foundation Establishment spiritual pools—nine in total, each one critically important, determining future achievement, like the pillars of a house.

William Carter directly brought his body to the brink of death, then used external forces to form the Foundation Establishment spiritual pool cycle, ultimately bypassing the Qi Induction stage in an incredible way and achieving Foundation Establishment in one leap.

Letting the body die but not be destroyed, forming the external cycle of the Foundation Establishment spiritual pool—how to use medicinal assistance to accomplish all this, this was the unique method pioneered by William Carter to skip the Qi Induction stage and directly establish the foundation, completely overturning the traditional cultivation path. It was precisely because of this that, despite being born with a body devoid of spiritual roots, he achieved Foundation Establishment, which eventually brought about the pursuit of the Immortal Emperor and the entire Immortal Realm.

“Buzz... buzz... buzz...” Although William Carter had succeeded once in the Immortal Realm, the current conditions were not even a ten-thousandth as good. Even though his requirements were not as high, the spiritual pools formed by the blood outside his body were rapidly condensing and forging, starting to tremble and on the verge of collapse at any moment.

“Open for me—bang...” At this moment, spiritual energy was already circulating within William Carter’s body. With a flick of his hand, the seal on the Foundation Establishment Pill instantly shattered. Not only that, the pill itself turned directly into powder. Then, William Carter pointed at the other pills as well.

All these refined pills turned into powder and merged into the condensing spiritual pool of blood. Afterward, William Carter reintegrated the medicinal properties he needed from these pills back into his blood.